Honda Closing UK Swindon Plant in 2022

People of Britain should’ve looked more into the ramifications and actually thought before blindly joining “the revolution” which is going to have no positive impact whatsoever on their daily lives

Brexit was an absurd idea from the start ... it’s going to be an absolute mess

Honda said it's unrelated to Brexit.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47287386

A company took a neutral stance on a hot button topic? How unusual.

87elco said:

chevy doesn't have anything that's not a boat or that doesn't turn off at stop lights no thanks. (Camaro,corvette excluded)

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lol every vehicle i have owned has been a chevy very dependable my last 1 ( i still own) has 260k miles and still going strong my civic is the first foreign car

Snoopyslr said:

A company took a neutral stance on a hot button topic? How unusual.

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LOL my thought as well. They have just enough time to shift 11th Gen hatch production to other facilities.

For those thinking that costs will increase, I'd say it's likely to be minimal impact. The US is already getting a portion of their Civics from Japan. And in case it wasn't already mentioned, Honda is mulling options to move hatch production to NA.

jred721 said:

I swear i've seen like 5 different threads about the plant closing. Not calling out this thread but in general do we really need so many threads about this? People need to read more before they create new threads.

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Hm didnt see it in general page. Maybe specific to the R page?

If you find others, PM Administrator with the links and he'll merge them.

NoHonor937 said:

Really? It’s unskilled labor. You don’t need a degree to work in a car factory regardless of where you work. Every car factory is the same. It’s all done by robots with human mechs taking care of the machines.

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Unskilled you say? Guess, you can do your own mods then. Enjoy looking down every once in a while, do ya? Yeah, the production line looks very efficient. It also appears they do only one particular type of job all day long but to imagine they are unskilled is just dumb. You don’t know these people.

turbo lover said:

Honda said it's unrelated to Brexit.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47287386

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Yooo, you go to take a dump in the bathroom. After you’ve dropped a couple logs the air smells bad. You think it’s not related to the biscuit you just dropped? That Tomlinson guy is just trying to control what you think. His song and dance is BS.

SpinRush said:

Unskilled you say? Guess, you can do your own mods then. Enjoy looking down every once in a while, do ya? Yeah, the production line looks very efficient. It also appears they do only one particular type of job all day long but to imagine they are unskilled is just dumb. You don’t know these people.

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Actually I do know these people as I work in a damn factory for a car company. You could walk in to to my factory and I could teach you how to assemble a strut and run it through a machine in an hour. That’s unskilled labor. An electricition, plumber, mechanic are all classified as skilled labor. They would hire a monkey off the street if it graduated high school. Everything in that factory is standardized for a unskilled worker to perform the job. If you can get into a car and drive to work then you qualify to work in a factory. Anyone who’s ever worked in one that didn’t require any specific qualifications would tell you the same. Working at McDonald’s requires more skill and IQ than a factory. And as I’ve done both I am completely qualified to make that assessment.

Green82 said:

lol every vehicle i have owned has been a chevy very dependable my last 1 ( i still own) has 260k miles and still going strong my civic is the first foreign car

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I don't doubt it. they just haven't made anything fun to drive im a chevy fan just an old school one. I daily drove my el camino with a 350 swap for years no issues. Still drive it when it's nice out.

NoHonor937 said:

Actually I do know these people as I work in a damn factory for a car company. You could walk in to to my factory and I could teach you how to assemble a strut and run it through a machine in an hour. That’s unskilled labor. An electricition, plumber, mechanic are all classified as skilled labor. They would hire a monkey off the street if it graduated high school. Everything in that factory is standardized for a unskilled worker to perform the job. If you can get into a car and drive to work then you qualify to work in a factory. Anyone who’s ever worked in one that didn’t require any specific qualifications would tell you the same. Working at McDonald’s requires more skill and IQ than a factory. And as I’ve done both I am completely qualified to make that assessment.

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You f#+#!$g snob. The contempt you show your fellow coworkers is nothing but disgusting. Comparing those hard working people striving to live decent lives and feed their families to monkeys? Who's the real monkey here. Learn some class.
You have one ugly soul my man

rraayy3 said:

People of Britain should’ve looked more into the ramifications and actually thought before blindly joining “the revolution” which is going to have no positive impact whatsoever on their daily lives

Brexit was an absurd idea from the start ... it’s going to be an absolute mess

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As I live in the UK and am fully aware of what the ramifications are I would ask the question how well aquinted are you with the facts of how the vote we had in this country led us to this point?

You are lucky in the fact that you vote for a President and have a house of democraticaly elected representitives. Well over here we have a vote and a party is elected with a leader much the same as in other countries only we don't, what we have are unelected EU bereaurcrats WHO have a major influence in law on how we run our country, we have mass immigration and are flooded with people who travel across continents not just a country to take advantage of our benefits system,the EU is supposed to stop this but does nothing. We have the bereaucrats telling us we cannot buy certain bananas becuase the angle of their bend does not meet their EU regulations, we also have these bereaucrats telling us how to live our daily lives by making rules we have but are unable to control. How would you like to live your life having rules made for you by someone who was never up for election but was in a position of total power?

Its simplistic to judge when you look from the outside, but another when you are living that life! Our barve forfathers fought to end this type of power corruption yet in Europe today it is seen as acceptable.

A couple things after reading through the thread...

1) Nobody mentioned that Honda's don't sell nearly as well in the UK as they do in China/Canada/USA... this could be part of their decision to close the Swindon plant, possibly moving hatch production to a country that has higher sales numbers. The biggest issue moving production to an existing plant is whether or not the plant actually has the capacity to take on another vehicle in which they could split production between more than one facility to lessen the burden.

2) VW has 2 plants in Mexico. GM has 4 plants in Mexico. Many auto makers (including honda) have factories in Mexico. Quality Assurance is standardized across any factory a company is operating, regardless of what country they're in. Assuming that a Mexican workforce is not capable of the same quality of assembly line manufacturing with such quality standards in place compared to any other country is racist and short sighted. End of story.